In Why So Sad, Sammy? Colleen Taffe and Ashley Gibbs offer an easy to understand primer for children on the concepts of mental health. The story is a way to help parents, families, teachers, pastors, and loved ones begin conversations about feelings of sadness and worry that children struggle with. This series focuses on learning the importance of resiliency while equipping young ones with the tools to be overcomers.

A story about the death of Sammy and the aftermath as seem through the eyes of a young sibling. Includes "parent notes" to help a young child try to process death. Also includes a story about a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly.

One minute your child is fine. The next minute, a broken bone. Hours later, in a clunky cast. For weeks or months, sidelined from favorite activities. If your child is like Sammy, (s)he gets glum and grumpy as days slog by. Help is pages away in Sammy's Broken Leg (Oh, No!) and the Amazing Cast That Fixed It, a whimsical book to entertain a child in a cast for healing a broken bone, or in a spica cast for hip correction (hip dysplasia). Children in a cast will delight in a troupe of Kisses who cheer for Sammy and coach her to be patient. The Kisses are Sammy's secret: only she can hear them. How and when they whooshed into her life will amaze and amuse. It all goes to prove: One Kiss for a Boo-Boo. A Bazillion Kisses for a Cast! Lavished with colorful, quirky illustrations, Sammy's Broken Leg (Oh, No!) and the Amazing Cast That Fixed It is entertaining, educational and encouraging. The book: Gives children and families realistic expectations about weeks or months of healing time. Eases children's fears, calms parents' anxieties. Hands parents a tool to boost their child's (and their own) patience.

A boy describes some of the many feelings he has about his brother Sammy, who is autistic.

Evidence-Based Reading for grade 1 offers 64 pages of reading practice. It is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and includes a reading comprehension rubric, a standards alignment chart, and pages of reading passages with evidence-based questions to encourage higher-level thinking and thoughtful answers. Each question is designed so that students learn to support their answers with evidence from the text. A variety of literature and informational passages are included to engage learners in a range of texts. The Applying the Standards: Evidence-Based Reading series emphasizes close reading by requiring students to answer text-dependent questions in both literary and informational texts. This is a series of six 64-page books for students in kindergarten to grade 5. Various reading and vocabulary skills are covered, and a culminating reflection question for each passage engages students' higher-level thinking skills. Of particular emphasis throughout the series are the Common Core State Standards and the teaching of evidence-based reading.

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